Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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Title	Author	Year
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley	Jupiter Hammon	1787
A Noiseless Patient Spider	Walt Whitman	1891
On Time	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Any Common Desolation	Ellen Bass	2016
The Goops	Gelett Burgess	1903
the suicide kid	Charles Bukowski	2005
To Think of Time	Walt Whitman	1855
To ——	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
The Good-Morrow	John Donne	1633
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14	Homer	1715
Wanting to Die	Anne Sexton	1981
The Border: A Double Sonnet	Alberto Ríos	2016
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]	William Shakespeare	1623
Equinox	Elizabeth Alexander	2016
Eating Poetry	Mark Strand	1980
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens)	Craig Santos Perez	2017
Long Distance II	Tony Harrison	1984
My Lover Is a Woman	Pat Parker	2016
Lot’s Wife	Anna Akhmatova	1973

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